California Adventure!

Emma & I spent the day at Disney's California Adventure yesterday with Todd, Kayla, & TJ. The kids had lots of fun, as usual. Emma is a little daredevil on the rides and just loves the swinging gondolas on the ferris wheel. They are hanging by wheels on an oval track that stretches from the center of the wheel to the edge, like a bunch of little radii. So as the wheel rotates, the gondolas roll on their own tracks. Mikayla & TJ like it too, but Emma just gets her maniacal giggle going as soon as we start rocking and it doesn't let up till we get off the ride. So, of course, we had to hit the ferris wheel twice. The lines were a bit longer than they were on Tuesday, so we had to wait a few minutes at each of the rides. You can see Emma found a way to entertain herself as she climbed up the walls! Mikayla is getting older too, which means she is big enough for all the grown up rides. Her general M.O. is to say she wants to ride something, get in line, freak out, start whining that she doesn't want to ride anymore. Then whichever one of us is with her tells her to knock it off and just get on the ride. By the time its over, she loves it and wants to go again! That's what happened with the roller coaster last time and with Tower of Terror this time. She's such a little drama queen, but its so much fun...